There have been reports of phone calls made from a Department of Labor phone number (202-693-2700) soliciting personal information and/or promising funds to those receiving the calls. These calls were not authorized by the Department of Labor. ETA and the Department of Labor do not and will not solicit Personally Identifiable Information, such as your Social Security number, or other personal information, over the phone. If you receive a call like this from a number that looks like an ETA phone number, consider it a spam call, hang up, and report the call to the US Department of Labor at 1-855-522-6748.

This map shows the Dislocated Worker Earnings Change State rankings for PY 2005. The amount ranges from a high of $8,735 in Wyoming to a low of -$2,673 in Oregon. The ten highest and ten lowest states for this ranking are highlighted on the map. The ten highest states in order are Wyoming, Alaska, Alabama, Rhode Island, the District of Columbia, South Carolina, California, Arizona, Louisiana and Virginia. The ten lowest, from top to bottom, are Ohio, Maine, Massachusetts, Hawaii, Vermont, Washington, Minnesota, Indiana, Kansas, and Oregon.